Peter Pan

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The Irondale Ensemble Project's new adaptation of J.M. Barrie's beloved classic Peter Pan is described as a "dark reinterpretation" but it is not nearly as frightening as one might expect. True, it's a far cry from Cathy Rigby in green tights flying about the stage, but still far less eerie than some of those noirish Batman cartoons that kids watch on weekday afternoons. This is a blessing: "Dark reinterpretations" of classics usually end up containing obligatory (and usually unnecessary) high doses of sex, drugs, and violence to inject a bit of "realism" into the proceedings, but what Irondale does here is much more honest. The company gets at the uncomfortable center of Barrie's Peter Pa[...]